Tom Arup wonders, can a wounded Paris deliver on the climate?

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s the gunsmoke clears from the streets of Paris, in its place a sense of resolve has set in. In a week, the wounded city will host 45,000 people for the long-awaited climate summit.

The French government is insisting that the terror will not stop it going ahead, albeit with heightened security and public marches cancelled.

Among those attending, there is a belief that the violence must not hamper the summit's goal – to deliver a long-awaited new global agreement to tackle climate change.

Read Tom Arup’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “Climate change: Can a wounded Paris deliver for the planet?”